Dear Readers,
What is Love? God is Love! What is it to Abide in Love? Abide is to Accept God’s Decision about what to accept & not accept in the behaviors of this world. But don’t forget the word forgiveness: We forgive, because Forgiveness has already been accomplished through and by Jesus. There is a freedom in Christ to Release Forgiveness. Unconditional Love is to be willing to do what it takes; and for a follower of Jesus, to seek God’s Thoughts & abide in God’s Decision, willing to do what it takes. Isn’t abide a result of Holy Spirit Discernment?
Look up God’s meaning of Abide in Him found written in 1 John 4:16.
1 John 4:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
With hearts filled with Christ & a mind set on Christ, we can be meek enough to allow God to handle it. Isn’t this Trust in God? I hope this enhances your spiritual understanding that is a strength to you to know what is going on in the situations that are you are facing (IN CHRIST) right now.
Now, why are we suffering? Is a question to consider. Are we suffering for the cause of Christ; or are we suffering for the cause of sin? Who do we follow is important to verify within our inner self. There is a difference in the cause of sufferings in this world for believers and non-believers, but there is HOPE in Christ for all who will believe. So this message is for you my dear friend. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus when you Repent and Confess you need God’s Salvation that is only through and by God’s Son, Jesus, whom is the Christ, the Son of the Living God: The Death, The Burial & The Resurrection!
Yet, friends, not everyone who mentions God or Jesus actually love Jesus; or even know whom He is to them. Yet, we always believe in HOPE. However, there is a time that we have to be meek enough to let God handle it; and not LET fear, discouragement, indifference, imbalance; nor confusion enter our heart. These things will come at us, but in Christ, we have a choice not to let them come in us.
I hope this is a strength to you to follow Christ & meek enough to allow God to handle it. We can be meek enough to allow God to handle it, because we have a relationship with God, that is through and by Christ Jesus. To God be the Glory!
In all meekness, we love others enough to give them a chance, because of a depth of God’s love we know. Meekness in God’s love is greater than man’s love. And, we need spiritual discernment from God to know how to pray, & understanding to be meek enough to allow God to handle it.
I hope this is a blessing to you. This is the day after, I survived in this world through Jesus with Revelation Knowledge to be better prepared. On earth, still being tried by the devil, but still being strengthened by God. We won’t let Satan trick us into having a bad day. :)
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Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word,
By, Karen Rowe
As a horse examples strength under control, a Follower of Christ is meek; not weak. A Christian Follower of Christ is Meek, lowly & soft @ heart in Christ, BUT NOT WEAK to the standards of the devil.
This morning, I heard the Spirit of God compare our spiritual heart to a horses nose! That is really cool, because a horse’s nose is soft, as velvet & CAN make a person happy! To experience interacting with a horse, the softness of a horses nose is a part of it.
Isn’t this exactly like when a believer shows love according to God’s word! With a heart that is softened!
And think of the opposite, when a horse snarls its nose, it is not as soft because the smooth nose is wrinkled up & the whiskers protrude.
Isn’t this like a believer’s heart when it becomes hardened TO LOVE, like the Bible teaches?
Learning the spiritual balances of love requires us to face difficulty in relationships with other people.
We have to fight to keep a soft heart that God can use, YET we can grow stronger in spiritual discernment.
People are flawed(& human). There are SPIRITUAL forces that are used against our SPIRITUAL kindness to get what they want.
Yet, I am convinced that the main goal of Satan is to harden our heart against love. Remembering also that God is Love, so doesn’t that make sense?
Giving is good, but there is a time to walk away. Yet as we walk with Jesus, we pray. We are not to take Satan’s burden of discouragement, indifference, imbalance, nor the enemy’s confusion!
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11 NLT
Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us.
2 Corinthians 1:6-7 NLT
Love is patient & kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does NOT demand its own way. It is NOT irritable, & it keeps NO record of being wronged. Love never gives up, 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance (1 Corinthians 13:4-7, NLT).
If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, BUT didn’t love OTHERS, I would be nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 NLT
TILL NEXT TIME!
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
“Writing the Story of my life with every choice Jesus helps me to make and learning how to be blessed and live life large, happy and free. I care.”
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The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe
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- Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Personal Revelation Life Verse: 1 John 4:16
16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. (HCSB)
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
Thank you Jesus!
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“GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (2 Corinthians 1:2, NIV).”
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Karen